Apparel-hood.



Patented Nov. 13, I900.

E. BRADLUFF.

APPAREL HOOD. A umxlm Med Aug. 3, 1899.)

(Ila Modal.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNESTINE BRADLOFF, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSE'PFS.

APPAREL-HOOD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,711. dated November13, 1900.

Application filed August 3,1899.

To all witmn, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Eannsrmn BRADLOFF, a citizen of the French Republic,residing at Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBonnets, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of a bonnet-forming blank providedwith drawstrings. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a bonnet madefrom theblank shown in Fig. 1.

The object of my invention is to make a bonnet which can be easilylaundered when desired.

In accordance with my invention blanks of any desired fabric may beused, and by operating the peripheral con figuration of the blank aconsiderable variety of bonnets having different outlines may be readilyproduced, the bonnets being ornamented in any desired manner by lacesand ribbons attached or otherwise.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of my invention, A representsthe bonnetforming blank, which in this case is of oval shape andornamented at its margins with lace B and provided at its ends withbonnetstrings D D, adapted to be tied together to hold the bonnet inplace. I combine with the blank four drawstrings f by means of fourpassages or bearings which are arranged in line and in pairs along theopposite longer sides of the blank, one pair along the side a the otheralong the side a I form the passages a by stitching the blankAto thelining A along two parallel lines a a. In these passages are mountedtheir respective drawstrings f, whose free ends project therefrom andwhose outer ends are anchored therein at a near the small ends of theoval, thus leaving portions thereof not traversed by the passages andtheir draw-strings. Preferably the draw-strings ff, near the front orupper edge a of the blank, should be brought nearer thereto than theyare to the rear or lower edge a of the blank, so that when the SerialNo. 725,990- (No model.)

draw-strings are drawn up to form the bonnet the margin of the blankbetween the draw-strings and the blank edge a will hang over the back ofthe neck, forming the cape of the bonnet.

By drawing the draw-strings so as to shirr the blank or fabric at theback along the opposite longer sides of the blank that part of the blankwithin the draw-string is made cupshaped to receive the head of thewearer, while the upper and rear margins along the longer sides of theblank form, respectively, the front headpiece and the cape of thebonnet. Further, it will be noticed that those portions of the blanklying between the points of anchorage a. are clear of passages anddraw-strings and that by reason thereof when the bonnet is worn the earsof the wearer will lie against those flat clear portions, and thus berelieved of the concentrated pressure which otherwise would exist alongthe drawstrings were they to cross those clear portions of the blank.

The draw-strings can be readily so tied where they project from theirpassages in the blank as to make the bonnet of different sizes, and byuntying the draw-strings the blank is readily flattened out, so as to beeasily laundered and to be nicely rolled for packing.

What I claim is- A bonnet comprising an oval blank of any desiredmaterial; a pair of draw-string passages formed therein in line alongand near the front edge of one of the longer sides of the blank; asimilar pair of draw-string passages arranged in like manner along theother longer side of the blank, but at a greater distance from the rearedge than the other pair is from said front edge, the outer ends of onepair of passages lying opposite to ends of the other pair, and separatedtherefrom by two plain portions of the blank; and two pairs ofdraw-strings, each of said pairs being contained in its respective pairsof passages and anchored therein at the outer ends thereof; the marginbetween said rear edge and the adjacent passages, when the drawstringsare drawn up, falling over the back and forming the cape of the bonnet,the free ends of one pair of said draw-strings projecting from a longside of said blank, and the ends of the other pai r of the draw-stringsprojecting from the opposite long side of the blank, whereby the blankis drawn into bonnet fOl'lll by pnekering the blank at the centralportion of its forehead margin, and also In testimony whereof I ailix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNESTINE BRADLO FF.

Witnesses:

EDWARD S. BEACH, A. I. CRAWFORD.

